Getting Rid Of Firefox’s “Well, This Is Embarrassing” Message
Firefox’s selective tab restoration after a crash is a handy feature, but if you’re suffering repeated crashes for whatever reason, then being told “Well, this is embarrassing” every single time can get really wearing. Here’s how to make it go away.
Ideally, I’d have liked to find a way to customise that too-clever-by-half message, but I couldn’t spot any obvious way of doing that (share one if you have it in the comments). However, you can tell Firefox not to offer the session restore option at all, which can be a reasonable trade-off if you don’t routinely have dozens of tabs open at once.
To make that change, enter
about:config
and click through the “Here be dragons” warning (another example of Firefox being a tad too clever). Use the filter to find the
browser.sessionstore.resumefromcrash
flag, right click, and select Toggle to switch it off.
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Comments
That’s strange, I’ve never received that message.
Me neither.
You’re lucky then. Mine crashes every time I try to open a PDF file. I guess I really should look at that!
It can be pretty annoying – especially since now my home PC seems to want to crash Firefox about every hour. No matter what pages I have open, disabled all extensions and plugins, still does it.
I’d like to turn it off but I actually have lots of tabs open at a time. The strange thing is, I get that message even when Firefox doesn’t crash.
I close a Firefox windows with no tabs open and occasionally it tells me it can’t restore the blank tab when I open it again.
wow, thanks a lot!
mine also shows the message, even when firefox didn’t crash. I get the message every time i open up firefox. Even when i closed without tabs open . . .
i also have this weird things, then when i close firefox without any tabs open, and start it up later, it opens up with tabs :S know how to fix this problem too maybe ?
I need the fix but had no browser.sessionstore.resumefromcrash entry. So it would be of additional help if you could include those needed steps.
Until you, do, I’m going to tinker around and hopefully figure it out.
Does not work
Ok, I figured it out. Type:
browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash